is either man blinking in this fiscal cliff standoff? we now know the ambassador, susan rice won't be the next secretary of state. this hour, the big announcement and the new reaction. >>> and a high-tech printer could be deadly. we're going to tell you how it may be able to make guns with a push of a button. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> there's a lot happening in the white house right now with huge implications for president obama's second term. the president is meeting with house speaker john boehner right now, a new bid to break their deadlock and avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. and they only have 19 days left. at the same time, the president's short list for secretary of state is even shorter right now, now that the ambassador susan rice has taken her name out of the running to replace hillary clinton. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, they are both standing by. jessica, first to you on the obama/b obama/boehner meeting that's going on